Первый российский паровоз The first Russian steam locomotive

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The first steam locomotive in Russia was designed and manufactured by the father and son Cherepanovs Efim and Miron in 1833 at one of the Nizhny Tagil factories. In the Mining Journal, the novelty was described as follows: “The land steamer, arranged by them, now goes in both directions along cast-iron wheel ducts specially prepared for a length of 400 sazhens (853.5 m). Their steamer was repeatedly in action and showed in practice that it can carry more than 200 pounds (3.3 tons) of gravity at a speed of 12 to 15 miles per hour (13 - 16 km / h). The steamer itself consists of a cylindrical boiler 5 1/2 feet (1676 mm) long, 3 feet (914 mm) in diameter, and two steam recumbent cylinders 9 inches (229 mm) long, 7 inches (178 mm) in diameter. The novelty met with the hostility of horse-drawn contractors, and the factory authorities and N. Demidov himself did not honor the locomotive with the attention it deserved, but a second locomotive was also made a year later.
According to partially preserved drawings and a working model made in 1837 for an industrial exhibition in St. Petersburg, a model of a steam locomotive was made, which in 1978 was installed at the Palace of Culture of Railway Workers near the railway station in Yekaterinburg on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Sverdlovsk Railway.